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Introducing Web 2.5, the messy new future of the internet | Dazed

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We’re approaching a new form of the net which should hand more power to creators – but what’s it going to look like?

The internet is now so vast, formless, and ubiquitous that it’s hard to think back to a time when you’d wait five minutes to load a picture of Jim Carrey as The Mask on AltaVista. While things have changed dramatically since the days of grayscale messageboards, MSN, and Neopets, we’re now approaching a new advent of cyberspace, sparked by a growing sense that the web has been steered by tech’s power players for too long. We’re amid a paradigm shift towards what’s being called ‘Web 3.0’ or ‘Web3’, a sort of utopian ideal of online existence also known as the decentralised web. Where Web 1.0, th

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